Top Aquatic Resorts

5. Grand Wailea Maui, Hawaii

ABOUT THE PANELIST

Dan Martin is a Chicago-based consultant, managing principal of
Market & Feasibility Advisors. He has approximately 25 years of
experience with waterparks and leisure-focused aquatics and has
been named to Aquatics International ’s annual Power
25 list.

Owner: Paulson & Co.

Year opened:2002

Size:780 guest rooms/suites

Staff:N/A

The Grand Wailea’s extensive outdoor aquatic features truly live up to the word “grand.” The main pool complex has nine separate pools, including a “baby beach,” seven water slides, waterfalls, caves, white-water rapids, grottos, a whirlpool and sauna, a scuba diving pool (designed specifically for
lessons), and a unique water elevator, billed as the first of its
kind. For adults only, there’s the more formal Hibiscus Pool,
identifiable by the large mosaic hibiscus flower inlaid on its
floor.